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Re-repair Stories (add your own!)

Posted by Lee of Omaha on May 5, 2022 at 08:27:01:
1. Bought a receiver off eBay to fix or for parts. Seller said it might need repair. Got it in. The seller had added an inline fuse of 25 amps before the primary. Since all home and business circuit breakers are 15 or 20 amps, the fuse couldn't blow. Functionally, it was a piece of wire.

2. Just yesterday, we repaired a Pioneer SX-1280. Someone had used 105 degree Nichicons (nice!) but, to get the receiver to come out of protection, had electrical taped a magnet to the side of the protection relay. That was new to us. Receiver had a couple of bad transistors in a power supply.